The town hall is launching a call for applications this Friday, June 28, to find businesses that will be set up in this brand new building in June 2025. The gourmet halls will be able to accommodate between 12 and 14 stands, depending on the space taken by each trader. Only food businesses can apply, such as a baker, a butcher, a caterer or even a fishmonger.
Applications close September 13, 2024
Traders interested in the gourmet halls project on Place du 11-Novembre in Laval can make themselves known to the town hall now: applications will close on September 13, 2024. The gourmet halls will be open from Tuesday to Sunday morning car “there are no offers on sunday in laval in the city center“, underlines Bruno Bertier, the first deputy mayor of Laval.
“There must be a complementarity in the offer, so it goes from the greengrocer to the fishmonger, a baker. You can find a wine merchant there, you can find a galette maker there. Some will have a notion of caterer: we will give the possibility to come and consume on site the different products that are on sale in this food hall”, describes Bruno Bertier, also president of Laval Mayenne Aménagements, the local public company which will manage the halls.
Laval Town Hall
The traders of the Saturday morning market, located at Place de la Trémoille, and those of the halls on the Allée du Vieux Saint-Louis were consulted by the Laval town hall. “It was a promise that we made four years ago, when we launched the project, that they would be given priority in terms of announcements and in the different stages of progress of the project. We met them there a few weeks ago, we presented the project to them and obviously wanted them to apply. says the first deputy mayor of Laval.
Laval town hall highlights the moderate rents it offers to traders to be able to set up in the future gourmet halls. These are municipal halls and not private ones, like in Angers. “We did not want to privatize either the place or the building. It is a political choice that we affirmed at the start of the mandate. So, we are going for moderate rents because we want this hall to be attractive We know that we are going to ask for an opening almost six days a week, therefore staff, structural costs which are not negligible. We also do not want to stifle future candidates with excessively high rents. justifies Bruno Bertier. The rent will depend on the space used by each business and on the use or not of cold rooms within the halls, for example.
The candidates will be decided by a jury chaired in particular by the mayor of Laval: the choices will be made in October 2024.
